Mata Mata Turtle
Tampa Bay
Turtle & Tortoise
Society, Inc.
Wood Turtle
Monthly Newsletter
February 2020 Issue
Meeting Date: February 8, 2020, starts at 7:00pm.
Guest speaker: Dr. Jeff Goessling on Conservation Ecology of the Gopher Tortoise.
Misc Notes
Please update your email information with Ralph Till at rascal1843@aol.com. We only use this
information for club business and it helps for club members to stay up to date on any last minutes
changes that may occur. It will also help ensure that you receive your electronic copy of our
monthly newsletter.
If you would like to submit an article or pictures to be published in the next upcoming newsletter,
please email it to Kim at sparty@tampabay.rr.com. Please submit by the end of the month to be
published in the next month’s newsletter.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the officers listed below:
Elected & Appointed Officers
President - Ralph Till
727-515-7443 Rascal1843@aol.com
Vice President – Mark Randall
20smoke@mindspring.com
Treasurer/Membership - Ralph Till
727-515-7443 Rascal1843@aol.com
Secretary/Public Relations - Kim Illum
sparty@tampabay.rr.com
Newsletter Editor – Mark & Kim Illum
sparty@tampabay.rr.com
Facebook Coordinator – Ralph, Mark R & Kim
https://www.facebook.com/groups/704741876316303/
New Website under construction:
http://www.tbtts.org/
RALPH'S RAMBLINGS
Hello Everyone,
Already a month has passed in this new year, it seems as if the time just flies by anymore. With that being
said, some of you with tortoises might already start seeing some egg laying action. I know that my
Egyptian group has started to lay eggs.
Three months ago I received a call from a woman who observed a Yellow Belly laying eggs in her dirt
road. Fearing that they might get squished, she asked if I could remove them. So I dug them up and
simply placed them in a container on a shelf in my tortoise room. Well you guessed it, 90 days later I have
some baby